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The Journey
This Journey uses local transportation by train where possible to keep your carbon footprint down and give you a chance to mix with local people going about their daily routine. We travel in small groups to minimise our impact on the environment and local culture. Accommodation is in small independent, locally owned guesthouses or hotels throughout this trip which means the money stays within the country and local people.
Your local guide is Nepalese and will travel with you through out the trip; you will be taken to local restaurants, shops and markets so the money that you spend directly benefits the people that live in the places that you visit. By having a local guide who knows and understands the variety of cultures and sensitivities you will learn about the way of life here and pass by sensitively with minimum impact on places you visit. The entrance fees that you pay to local sights go towards their preservation and restoration. Local guides are provided at tourist sights which creates a career for those people and an income.
Optional volunteer projects: Add one in Delhi and/or Nepal to make your journey longer and more worthwhile
We work directly with local NGOs and Community based organisations, taking great care to select the organisations we partner with always making sure there is a real need for volunteers and the work that volunteers do will make a difference to the local community.
We work hard with the selected local partner organisations to develop roles for the volunteers focusing on areas where real difference can be to help the organisations meet their objectives. Through a dedicated team of local managers we constantly monitor the progress that is made through the volunteer programme and constantly review the thrust of our volunteer programmes to help local communities.
In Delhi we have a variety of volunteering opportunities including teaching in schools, working with children in orphanages, medical, physiotherapy or dentistry projects. In Nepal we have a variety of teaching projects in schools Kathmandu or in rural villages.
We will tailor make your volunteering projects in line with the skills and interests that you have. Please enquire for further details on the options we can offer you.
Foundation:
We have our own foundation, a registered charity, which our travellers and volunteers can join us in supporting.
Aims of the foundation are:
The advancement of education, the relief of poverty and sickness and the preservation and protection of good health through the provision of financial assistance, volunteers and such other forms of support as the council members may from time to time determine.
The Foundation supports local communities by:
- Making grants to individuals
- Making grants to organisations
- Providing other finance
- Providing human resources
- Providing buildings / facilities / open space
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